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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

Learning Visions

Ellen Wagner says, " I Ds help transform intangible information assets into things of great business or epistemological value." Thats a great description, but it still doesnt help me tell the woman on the playground what it is that I do. I usually say "I create training that genuinely helps people do their jobs better."

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Attention Spans Are Getting Shorter

Nick Leffler

Attentions spans are shrinking, nobody can pay attention for more than a few seconds. Just to clear things up, an attention span is that thing that allows us to pay attention to something. You know, when something captures our attention because it’s so incredibly interesting and we can’t turn away.

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Beneath the Surface

Upside Learning

It struck me that what was missing was a finer focus, and it drove me back to previous writings. I’ve railed, e.g. in my book on myths, that our attention span hasn’t dropped down to 8 seconds. And, despite a newer book based upon research that suggests our attention span has dropped to 47 seconds, I think there’s more to it.

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Social media and reflection: marriage or divorce?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Most of the time a smarter use of media may help. I partly agree with her that there is this danger of communicating faster, with less attention, communicating with more people but not getting to a certain depth of understanding. For instance, there are people I get to know better through reading their blogs systematically over time.

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Live in NY! It’s Kineo…

Learning Visions

We need models to help stop the stream of consciousness writing. These structures are crucial to building better elearning and can actually help you speed up the process. AIDA: Attention, Interest, Desire, Action (see the Kineo Top Tip: Learning from the Ad Men ) Cammy (that’s me!) A very simple model).

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5 Lessons from Writing 101 You Thought You’d Never Need for e-Learning

Trivantis

You probably never thought the concepts from Writing 101 would later help you in your e-Learning development. But we’re not talking about the writing or the text in your course! The basic lessons from Writing 101 can actually be applied to your e-Learning course planning, techniques and overall organization.

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The Neurobiology of Why Your Learner’s Brain Responds to Great Storytelling

Maestro

When you think about the power of storytelling, your first thought might be of the movies—even as Hollywood continues to churn out stories that follow familiar arcs we’ve seen time and again, we keep showing up and finding ourselves drawn in, happily paying to see it play out in different forms on the big screen. The story loses us.

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